Publications of Isaac Overley

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  • Overley, Isaac. Measuring made easy. Being the most facile and expeditious method extant; Whereby any Person, unskill'd in Decimal and Duodecimal Arithmetic, may find the Superficial, or Solid Content of Geometrical Figures, truly and expeditiously; as also the Content of all Kinds of Casks and Figures, in Beer or Wine. A treatise very useful for all Carpenters, Joyners, Painters, Glaziers, Plaisterers, Plumbers, Coopers, Paviers, Backmakers, Bricklayers, &c. By Isaac Overley, Teacher of the Mathematics. Usus perficit. London: printed by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-Street, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]. ESTC No. T140631. Grub Street ID 188328.
  • Overley, Isaac. The young gauger's instructor, being the most plain and easy introduction to that art. Wherein are contained, the doctrine of decimal arithmetick; the Method of Extracting the Roots of all Powers, in a New, Easy, and more Expeditious Method than hitherto published: the method of gauging all kinds of vessels, as used by the Officers of Excise: a new, easy and short way of ullaging casks by the pen: the description, Construction and Use of the sliding rule, with several necessary Amendments; as also several useful Tables and Problems, never before published. To which is added, an appendix, of the Gauging of Irregular Bodies, wherein several Errors of all former Writers on this Subject are demonstrated and corrected. By Isaac Overley, Late Officer of Excise. And likewise, a supplement, by the editors: Wherein is shewn a general Method for finding the Areas, or Solid Contents of all Kinds of curvilineal Figures. London: printed by C. and J. Ackers, in St. John's-Street; and sold by W. Reeve, in Fleet-Street; T. Wicksteed, in Newgate-Street; R. Baldwin, jun. in Pater-Noster-Row; R. Montagu, in Great Wild-Street, near Drury-Lane; H. Slater, the Corner of Clare-Court, Drury-Lane; and G. Bickham, engraver, in May's-Buildings, Covent-Garden, MDCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. T179665. Grub Street ID 216379.
  • Overley, Isaac. The young gauger's instructor, being the most plain and easy introduction to that art. Wherein are contained, the doctrine of decimal arithmetick; ... the method of gauging all kinds of vessels, ... a new, easy and short way of ullaging casks by the pen: the description, ... of the sliding rule, ... To which is added, an appendix, ... By Isaac Overley, ... And likewise, a supplement, by the editors: ... London: printed for George Keith, 1752. ESTC No. N48346. Grub Street ID 32912.